Words have never failed Alice Howland. A Columbia University linguistics professor, she is acclaimed for her precise use of language. Then, she begins forgetting simple phrases. Then, worse, people - including her family.

We first meet Sandra as she is awakened from an afternoon nap with an urgent call from work. We don't know yet why she's not working nor, really, anything else that's going on. We’re just thrust directly into this woman’s lower-middle-class life in a small Belgian town, as at sea as she seems to be.

Most of the 2015 Oscar nominees for Best Picture have cycled out of Amarillo theaters, but all eight will be back for a 10-day marathon at Cinemark Hollywood 16. Cinemark's Oscar Movie Week kicks off at 7 p.m.

The Wachowskis cash their last blank check from Warner Brothers with "Jupiter Ascending," an excruciatingly empty chunk of eye candy that spends over two hours trying to convince us they're not ripping off "Dune.